Dr. Lynn Stauffer
Professor and Chair
Computer Science Department
Sonoma State University
Office: Darwin 116D
Phone: (707) 664-2268
Email: lynn.stauffer@sonoma.edu
Spring Greetings from the CS Chair (January 2008)
Fall Greetings from the CS Chair (August 2007)
Spring Greetings from the CS Chair (January 2007)
Greetings from the CS Chair (August 2006)
Spring 2008 Schedule
- Office Hours
- Monday 2:00-4:00pm, Tuesday 9:15-10:00am, Wednesday 2:00-3:00pm, Thursday 9:15-10:00am or by appointment
- Academic Advising
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Contact the CS Administrative Coordinator to schedule an appointment.
- CS 252 Intro to Computer Organization
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Lecture
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Tuesday/Thursday 8:00-9:15am
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Rachel Carson Hall, Room 14
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Lab
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Thursday 2:00-4:50pm
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Darwin 25
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- CS 497 Internship
Computer Science major, Joe Andresen, throws pie at Dr. Stauffer as part of Math Club's Pi Day festivities 2007.
(That's Dr. Stauffer behind the paper plate.) Joe paid extra to get close up and personal.
Educational Background
Dr. Stauffer received her Ph.D. from the
Information and Computer Science Department
at the University of California, Irvine.
Research
Dr. Stauffer's primary research interests are in the
design and analysis of algorithms and data structures. She is
particularly interested in the field of data compression. She has
also worked with undergraduates doing research in programming languages, expert systems,
database design and most recently computational geometry.
Data compression attempts to reduce the size of an input file by removing
redundancy and is useful in many storage, communication,
and security applications. One area of Dr. Stauffer's research considers
parallel data compression where data is manipulated simultaneously by a collection
of parallel processors. Her work includes compression methods on the
systolic array and Xnet parallel machine models. On the Parallel
Random Access Machine (PRAM), a theoretical model of parallel
computation, Dr. Stauffer has published work on sublinear-time
compression and she is investigating the extension of these research
findings to include other existing computational models.
Other Interests
- Sonoma State Univerity Student Chapter of the ACM
- More information can be found at the Computer Club website.
- Women in CS Group
- This informal group works to
support women in the computer science program at SSU. Gatherings are held
approximately every month with a loose topic for discussion. Previous meetings have
focused on issues and coping
strategies for women in computer science. See WICS.